Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1887-04-09

be great praise to ayof landscape ths "a,
1t looks like picture. From thls DUN,
which is 40 or 80 feet high, the country u
| Woods and fields is peculiarly a.
tractiYe. lying beyond the wafer,
with an Arcadian calm Contrasting
sharply with the busy lie ABOUT
YOU Perhaps it is the absolute CON
| trast which makes the scene So striklhg'
Gu are IL the very midst Of warehouses;
OF buying and selling, and the am OF
/ large city; there, seeming but Danus-
| breadth away, is the solitude OF WOODS
and helGs. You can almost see the raOolt
starting away from the cOpse ana escap-
Ing through that long grass; you can
smell the woodland scents. Wnen IhihA
OF savannah / shall always think nrst o.
the Bay. The tall warehouses below Inc
| DIu1 and close against II, with Ieet Id Tue
| river, add striking feature TO the place;
1t is over their roofs that you look on at
| the sylvan beauty beyond the stream
1t seemed to US that every other negro
child that was old enough TO toddle ABOUT
| alone was this morning engaged IN tramc
| in yellow jasmine. They. too, had their
! pecunlary interest in the NorInefn
| stranger. 1t was rare that they offered
! their flowers to q native. Ii L had
| bought all the jasmine that was tendereu
me while ! stopped in this city, sara
| toga trunk would hardly have heia IL:
| But the sweetness, o, the sweetness OF
that jasmine flower!
AS | fingered at the Bay this morning.
which is to be the last morning OF my stay
here, something touched me gently, ana,
looking, there was the smallest negro
| baby that ever went alone. OF course L
expected it had flowers to sell. But no;
plugged tight In its brown, bare arms was
Gordon setter puppy 4 or weeks old.
''MissQs," said the child, painting under
it's load, ''yo' jes' buy my puppy"
Did the sprIte have a suspicion that
nothing tempts me quite so strongly as
| dog? Both the puppy and the chlld
! looked earnestly al me, and one face was
! as expressive as the other IN hat stage
OF its existence. The small darky swayed
little, then planted his bare feet more
| firmly and repeated:
"Missus, yo' jes buy my puppy"
took the dog In my arms. 1t was
| plainly thoroughbred, and it appealed
| TO me instantly, nuZZling confidently
up against me, seconding its owners re-
quest.
'But what will you do without itr' l
asked.
loot five more ter mammy's," was the
prompt reply, showing two very white
| teeth between two very thick lips, and
holding out hand for the money. If my
rescuer had not come at that moment l
should have made this rash purchase,
and should on my bOmeward jour-
ney have been that unpleas-
ant specimen of humanity, woman
with a dog. But my friend returned
along the Esplanade at this moment.
She remOnstr ated sharply. She took the
puppy and restored it to the child. She
gave him ten cents and sent him away,
and then she turned to me and said that
it was very well 20 love dogs, but she did
not think 1t was worth while to be fool
about them.
We are to take our journey homeward
leisurely, KNOWN that sometimes March
fingers with April, despite the deceptive
cry of the blue-bird and the robin in the
Northern skies. We have also a wish to
notice the general aspect of these towns
as compared with the way they affected
US long time ago. We have heard much
said and have read much of the "New
South" the South thrilling with rejuven.
ating life. Even the careless, un0bserY-
ant traveller must feel that the pulse here
now beats in a new way. The rush of &C
tlvity and hope is everywhere. l do moi
see how one can walk Tor half an hour
in Southern town now without being
con cious that the air is full OF something
which was never in IL before. 1 do not
mean that there is that enterprise and
alertness which is often too near to fever
in the North, but there is an enterprise
which do not believe was ever before
known here. You need not examine in
to cause and effect to perceive this; the
knowledge comes to you in d thousand
ways. and statistics bear out anC
siren CITIZEN the impression made upon tn,
traveller. Vigor takes the place o
langor.
How will Charleston. torn and shaker
as she has been, bear herself when VI
next see her again? Some of our part,
wished to rush through that town, con
tending that since she had taken up witt
earthquakes it was reasonable to eXpec
that she wOuld continue with them. Thes
people seemed to think that sucn cOnvul
slons were matter of habit, like hysteI
les with a nervous woman.
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